In HTML5 anchors should not be closed when encountering divs, for example, but should be closed when encountering buttons, for example. Many sites that use HTML5-style anchors end up having links displayed with zero-length link texts. The proposed patch correct this behaviour by detecting whether the document is HTML5, then suppressing the close-anchor action in CLOSE_A if it's an HTML5 document. A new macro handles the HTML5-specific cases where anchors are not already always closed.

This also fixes a bug in the tokenizing FSM in etc.c that prevented the !doctype element from being recognized; the fix is necessary because HTML5 detection depends on checking the !doctype element.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc.c b/etc.c
index 37c4f15..16d1295 100644
--- a/etc.c
+++ b/etc.c
@@ -727,6 +727,11 @@ next_status(char c, int *status)
 	case '>':
 	    *status = R_ST_NORMAL;
 	    break;
+	case 'D':
+	case 'd':
+	    /* could be a !doctype */
+	    *status = R_ST_TAG;
+	    break;
 	default:
 	    *status = R_ST_IRRTAG;
 	}